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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
THE GLOBE BOOMING.
Oscar Says the Globe Was in
Great Demand at Chippewa


Oscar Says the Globe Was in
Great Demand at Chippewa
Falls.
Well, the time is drawing near when
we will all have to ''gO inn and face the
sold man" and give an account of our
work and efforts for the year. A num-
Der of the boys have already gone, and
the hotels begin to realize it, as their
offices present rather lonely appear
ance. Speaking OF hotels, the Ia IL
Claire" of Eau Claire. always bearing
the reputation of being IA home" for the
boys, has made change in the manage
ment, Mr.. Parkinson, fa:niliarly known
as Bob" becoming one of the
proprietors. The remOdeling and
changes in progress, when completed,
will place it in the front rank of
hotels in the stat e.
Prindels Little Inn. at Durand, is an
other hotel the boys like to Sunday at.
The table service can't be improved on.
The Royal, at Menomonie, is first-claSs
in its appointments, but the Office Serv-
ice could be improved.
Tom Burke, of Allen, Moon & Co., St.
Paul, was noticed this week on the
Omaha line without his bottle of per-
fume.
Dick Roberts, the 'light-weight' of
the Eau Claire Grocery company, laid
over at Dul and enjoying the good things
at PrIndle's Little Inn. Dick will con-
tinue to swing a grip for the grocery
company during the coming year.
Robert Hummer, new-fledged knight
of the grip, will look after the territory
vacated by J. p. Mcmahon. Bob is a
hustler, and will no doubt get there all
right.
The GLOBE was in great eemand yes
terday at Chippewa Falls. One news
dealer closed out his supply in less than
an hour. The scandal agitating that
place and the Smith-Kilrain set-tO was
the cause. The newsboys also reaped
quite harvest. OSCAR.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
ONE OF THE BOYS,
What He Saw the Boys Doing in
and Around WATERFOWL.

Harry Parry who thinks his smiles are
not a drug in the market.
Frank Egan doing land Office bust
ness in wagons and cutters.
Charley Sullivan ruStling the ma
| chinery business in order to keep the
| cOnvicts at Saltwater at work.
Jim Dean positively making his fare
| we'll tour on the road. Jim is one of the
| handSomest men on the road, and he
will be missed by others beside the
| travelling men.
r. E. Burbridge working night and
day trying to sell $4,000 more groceries
than he did last year. Friend Burbridge,
we hope you will get handsome adj
vance Jan. L.
Louis Levy. making his first trip for
| WeStheimer 81 Sons, st. Joe, Missouri,
and selling nothing less than ten bar
rels, jobbers' quantity, of alcohol.
A. K. Erwin, bidding all his Gus
toners, the boys and others goodbye
before going East to attend to the wants
of the dry goods trade. Erwin, old fell
low, we will miss you, but the best of
friends must part. Success attend you.
A. Hirsh, with J. V. Farwell & Co.,
Chicago-Selling big trade only, at the
rate of 81, $50, 600 year.
r. T. Beebe, the very pleasant gen.
tleman who represents Lillibudge &
Co., neapolis-Working very hard
and taking great many orders, as
usual.
F. Beng, claiming Blizzard cigars are
the best.
w. H. Williams, collecting bad debts
for the st. Paul Harvester works.
w. r. Drew, Winona, on still hunt
for large bills of crOckery.
Art Harrison, 1.-The whale" reading
letter from his best girl.
j. Ii. Let's supplying the people with
teas.
J. c. Olson selling much jewelry and
''sich."
James Conlin, with Powers Dry Goods
company, giving bargains to 1.-THE poor
people,"
w. E. Pell, who smells nicer than
anybody. with kenney q Co., Chicago,
wholesale perfumery.
n. Underwood, Jr., selling fire and
burglar alarms.
George Bunce, with w. S. Conrad &
Co.. selling more Hazel Kinks than any
body.
Frank Ellis, just returning from a
Southern trip, where he went for his
health. He found it, and his friends
are glad of it. Crackers haven't adj
vanced cent.
A. T. Teel, Minneapolis, telling the
trade how DR.. Prices baking powder
takes in Europe.
ID. Robinson, with Mills d Gibbs,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
SOME PEN PICTURES.
Sketches of the Peculiarities of
Some of the Boys.


Some of the Boys.
c. T. Williams, with the Empire Cof-
fee and Spice company, has renewed
his contract with the above firm for an
other year, and will endeavor to make
the people of the Northwest chew more
cloves than usual.
w. c. Corbett is the gentlemanly tea
man of Harrison, harrington q Co., of
Minneapolis. Mr.. COrbett is one of the
oldest travelling men in the Northwest,
and commands the respect of all who
know him, except Roots and Herbs. j.
II. Reynolds. Mr.. COrbett is also chair
man of the board of directors of the
Northwest Travelling Mems Indemnity
and Relief association.
Charles A. Tracey is now with Chi
cago house selling cigars. Tracey is
one of the oldest cigar men on the
Northern Pacific road. He has always
made himself very plentiful around
Fargo.
Abe Showers is with Hooker & Man.
lev, cigar dealers, of Minneapolis. Abe
has recently taken unto himself wife,
and can hereafter be found at home
evenings.
J. 3. Broweraucher is with A. Kelly
& Co., wholesale grocers, of MinneapO-
lis. Prof. Broweraucher is one of the
smoothest men on the road. There are
no flies on him.
Sid Harris is with c. F. Lauer, cigar
manufacturer. OF Minneapolis. Sid'S
smiling countenance can be seen fire.
quently in the streets of Minneapolis
behind his black steed shouting, BUY
the Mexican filler cigar"
Norman Desmara is with George r.
Newell & Co., wholesale grocers, OF
Minneapolis. Norman is great rustler,
and commands very large trade in the
city.
George French is with Harrison, Far
a dandy, but he is no dude. We are
very sorry to see George going around
with that six-foOt ulster of his, but it is
usually the case when man has to go
to New York City for good time.
ID II Na...tal, caIn nianl,. led NaIyt
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24

soon saw the Flyer coming along, and
swung back and forth with all my
might to acquire as much momentum as
possible. AS soon as the smoke stack
passed under me, | made the leap.
had only six or eight feet to go, but the
train was moving at such rate of speed
that | came mighty near missing it. As
it was eight cars passed clean under me
while | was falling through that five
feet of air, but | landed OH the ninth
and last safe and sound and road into
st. Paul without ticket"
At this point the st. Paul liar looked
very weak and faint, and his hackers
thought it all up with him. He poured
a gill of whisky down his throat and
began:
Gentlemen, was on that same Flyer
that my friend rode into st. Paul on. L
left st. Paul. bound for Chicago, on the
EaSt-bound Flyer at 1890 o'clock, and
when the train was down past La
Crosse somewhere a fellow told me that
my friend here had designs on an Old
customer of mine at Saltwater. L
knew it was a terrible thing to under
take, but | resolved to jump from the
Flyer going East over onto the Flyer go
ing West, and go back to st. Paul and
head him off. So l crawled up onto the
roof of my car. We were going, gen
ing gentleman at the rate of
eighty miles an hour. Soon
saw the Flyer coming along at the rate
of ninety-five miles an hour. Both
trains had lost time and were trying
very hard to make up. L knew they
would shoot past each other in the hum
dredth part of a second, and that L must
act very quickly. l am something OF a
mathematician, and having computed
all the factors of the problem, when the
other Flyer had reached point just a
quarter of a mile off made the fearful
leap. Jumped very high so that the
smoke stack would pass under me. but
to my dismay L found myself settling
before the train came up, and l made
up my mind to be crushed under her
wheels. My feelings turned quickly to
Joy, however, for felt the smoke stack
Just Craze under me. But now L
experienced a terrible anxiety lest
the whole train should pass on
before | descended as low as the
roof of the car. Again l was hap
PLY disappointed, for L came down
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
S. DE LAVERGNE.
A Man Who Claims He Came From
Mount Ararat.


A mighty clipper old boy is S. De
Lavergne, who claims to be one of the
oldest travelling men in the Northwest,
and when he is called upon to make a
speech always refers to this fact and
announces that he is proud of the dis
tinction.
He is a mighty clipper old fellow,
Notwithstanding the fact that time has
wiped nearly every vestige of hair from
his smooth fiesh-colored scalp and
turned his once luXuriant black beard
into mass as white as the
driven snow. Ho holds his
age remarkably we'll and chews his
hotel rationS with the same teeth that
he had when he was fifteen years old.
No dentist ever tinkered with his mas
ticators, and it looks as though he
would enjoy the honor of dying with
firSt-claSS outfit of worries in his Jaws.
You can't get De Lavergne to say
that he is not just as young as heiused
to be. On the contrary, he claims that
he is growing more supple and Timber
every year, and the boys along the line
haven't any ground on which to
base a denial that this statement
is true. When the landlords
on his route greet him with-'.Hello, La
Vergne, where'd you come from?''ohe
invariably replies, From Mount Ara
rat" He seems anxious to giveet
people the impression that he Hailed
originally from NOah's ark. This, how
ever, is not true.
De Laverngne was born as far back as
1928, in Troy, \. Y, and holds. up his
head about three feet when he tells that
his father helped hold down the first
passenger train ever run on a railroad in
the United States, on its trip from Troy
to Schenectady in 1882. He says he can
remembered the circumstance and how
he wanted to hang on behind and was
driven off by brakeman. His early
education was gained in the public
schools of Troy, where he was distin-
guished for whispering to the other
Schola airs when the teacher was off his
guard His early tendencies were to be
eyerybody's friend, and in 1913 he took
the road for Troy grocery finn. In
those daye there were few railroads and
LIE Vergne had to make the majority of
his towns by wagon and did not an in
considerable amount of walking. This
exercise in his early life accounts for
the wonderful development of the calves
of his legs, which are curiosity to his
associates to-day and a picnic for hum
cry dogs who don't like book agents.
Since 1S4S he has travelled continually,
with the exception of two years, when
he engaged in the grocery business on
his own responsibility in New York
city. There was not enough profit in
the business to suit him, and he once
more took to the road, and has since
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24


plump on the baggage car. But just as
was congratulating myself, anew and
horrible sensation came over me. Al
though was on top of it, the train was
slipping from under me! The speed of
the cars was too much for the law of
gravitatiOn as applied to my BODY. L
was unable to clutch onto the roof any
where, and car after car was jerked
along under me with such rapidity that
didn't have time to fall down any of
the spaces in between them. While L
was on the next to the last car l made
the final effort of despair and succeeded
i'm getting part of my body down in
the last interspace. / should certainly
have been killed had l not opportunity
straddled the neck of a porter who was
lust passing from one car to the other"
The Judges awarded the battle to st.
Paul, and a large amount of money
changed hands.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
FRANK G. BRADY.
A Bright Young Man Who Sells
TiuuOr. Rut Doesn't Drink It


Liquor, But Doesn't Drink 1t.
You say he looks new and fresh!
Well he is, at the same time he knows
his business from the bottom up and
none of the boys have ever been known
to get ahead of him when there
was an order waiting to be picked
up. His name is Frank G..
Brady, and he travels for Rosenfeld
Brothers, Minneapolis, wholesale liquor
dealers. Strange as it may seem, Frank
has the reputation of never tipping the
festive glass to his lips, but when he
comes to having fun with the
boys he can get there neck
and neck with any of them. He
is something of an amateur musician
and plays the piano, harp and harmo-
MICA with the clevernesS of a profess
slonal, consequently Frank Is a valuable
desideratum in Minnesota and
Dakota along the line of his
travels, He keeps the boys
and charity fairs often engage him as a
powerful drawing card. He never
charges for his services on occasions of
this kind and he gets plenty of busi-
ness. He always wears his hair pOmpa-
dour which fact gives some people the
impression that he is dude, but that is
a mistake-he Is not dude, and is in
no danger of being afflicted with that
malady. Local option prevailing in
Dakota may make some difference in
Brady's sales next year, but he says he
can do pretty good business as long as
the Minnesota towns along the Dakota
line deal out the 'rale Ould mountain
dew"
Brady was born in the South, and like
all Southern bred men is full of chivalry,
and is great admirer of women, who,
in turn, admire him, not so much for
the set of his clothes and his
pempadour as for his general clean
cut appearance. There is ru-
NOR that Frank has made choice
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
lew York, selling VIII Carlton a large

New York, selling VIII Carlton large
bill of white goods.
I'll. Sabin trying to decide whether to
work next year on commission or a
straight salary.
81. r. Fitch still arguing base ball.
o. G. Weatherby, selling specialties
in dry goods.
w. G. Morrow, with Bradley & Met
calf, sending out circulars to secure
large trade next year.
f. n. Hayes, with A. K. Fairbanks &,
Co., soaping the territory.
c. III. May, trying to sell enough
barbed wire to fence the earth.
The boys at the Kampeska house are
doing Christian act by raising purse
of $50 for one of the waiter girls who has
been i'll for some time.
ONE OF THE BOYS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
PINE KNOT FLICKERS.
He Has Some News to Imparu Con.
~ ha 90 VT.aao.-sx,

He Has Some News to ImparJ Con-
corning the Boys of Wisconsin.
Sam Mcdowell, with Egloff Bros, Is
making points on the $500 line this
week. He is going with d. F. Nc
earthly, of st. Paul, Jan. 1.
James Feeley is winding up the years
work for Blabon, Warren & Chipley.
lie stays with them another year.
w. III. Browning, new man on this
line, is working up good trade for
Post u Dillon, wholesale grocers Of
Chippewa Falls.
AS straw to show which paper is
read by the Knights of the Grip, Satur-
day last. five of us took the north-bound
train and all five bought st. Paul
GLOBE. PINE KNOT.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
SEEN FROM A PINE TREE,
All Over Takes Birds Eye View
of the Boys.

10 Clark eating cheese and crackers
and charging the house 81.
Tom Burke following his new occu-
patton at the Indian reservation at Hoy
wood.
John Picha selling boots and shoes by
the carload over in Michigan.
c. ID. Boyd. with the Wellman &
Dwire Tobacco company, teaching his
bulldog Handsome" to sell Sweet Lotus
and mule ear.
Lew Meter selling the only tobacco
cigars on earth, so he says.
John Monroe, who has been filling his
customers up on holiday goods and
looking through the window to see if they
want any more.
Charley Paulk sending his customers
Christmas presents in the shape Of
hOrSeshoeS.
c. I. Hull assisting Boyd. the tobacco
man, in training his bulldog Hand
some" to sell tobacco.
George S. Wiseman hurrying home
for Christmas.
John Postlewait feeding his angle
worms for next seasons trOuting.
ALL OVER.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
Imnortant Meeting.

There will be meeting of the Min
nesota division of the L. P. A. on We'd
nesday evening next at the rooms of the
Commercial Travellers club in the Hale
block. llC.T IS interested in the sue
cess of the annual convention of the
National association, to be held in Min
neapolis next June, are requested to at
tend. J. E. Lobdell, See'y Mimi. Div.
C. I'll. Brooks, Prest. Mimi. Div.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
Officers Elected.

The annual meeting of the CONNER
cial Travellers club was held in the
club rooms in the Hale block, st. Paul.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, Z. w.
Gibbons; first vice president, Seneca
De La VerQue; second vice president
j. B. Arey; secretary and treasurer, II.
A. Dorsey; directors, ID. b. Finch, j..
A. Higgins, Il. F. Fitzgerald, Ike
Lederer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24

kota in bright, breezy style that makes
him very popular with the trade and
with the boys generally,
De Lavergne is pet with the land
lords, for he never grumbleS at tough
beefsteak, heavyweight butter, cellu-
loid beds or sour coffee. He is as hale
and hearty as hewas fifty years ago. and
bids fair to score round hundred years
before he returns to dust and shes.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24

what L was
looking for
a good tire
with branches
spreading far
over the track.
l tied a rope
around one of
these limbs, so
as to make a
S W ing, an d
when 1 hung
from the swing
by my hands
my feet were
about Sc We n
yards above the
D-aA4xr
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24

amusement was done gladly; but
now his days of usefulness have passed.
Real travelling men have stepped n,and
Ynot will step aside. This will proba-
bly, be my last letter, but shall always
look with eagerness for Saturdays
GLOBE. Wishing you all a merry
Christmas and happy New Year, re-
main, YNoT.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
ARTHUR STURTZKOPF.
A Right Smart Hustler With {
Checkered Career.

Tall and slender, six feet three
inches in his socks; medium thin
face, small eyes, hair cut short
and parted in the middle; fair
sized moustache, close cut En-
glish chop whiskers; straight
standing collar, with sailor knot
tie; four buttoned cutaway coat,
buttoned up; age thirty-eight
years.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24

represented five different firms and has
travelled over nearly every state and
territory in the Union. For long time
he dealt exclusively in baking powder.
but is now connected with the firm of
Sherman Brothers, Chicago, dealers in
teas. coffees and spices. and he covers the
territory of Nothern Minnesota and Da-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24

fame, is quite an artist, judging from a
drawing | saw a few days ago of Stock
dale and himself ying to catch a freight
train at st. Vincent to go to Hallock.
ELOSSIE.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24

in one of the Northwestern towns, of a
beautiful woman whose name he will
change before the year 'SS comes to a
close. Well, Brady is not name that
any woman should be ashamed to bear,
especially when the man who beStOwS
it upon her is Frank sort of fellow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
TWO BIG LIARS.

A Brace of Drummers Enter Into
a HEAVYWEIGHT Lying Match.
An exciting lying main took place at
he Merchants, st. Paul, last Saturday
night between st. Paul and Chicago
drummers. There was no police inter-
ference, and the sport furnished the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-24
MERCHANT TOURISTS.
The Globe Wishes All the Boys
the MePrieSt Kind Of a
Christm as.
"Seottie" and "Ante-Lucem"
Turn Their Facile Pens to
Good Account.
A Couple Of Big Lies Told by
Two Champion North
western Liars.
A Great Feast Spread for
the Knights Of the
Grip.

HRS TN Aside
is a season when we
should all ''rejOice
and be exceeding
glad. ItcOmmemO-
rates that event
which will be recOg-
nized throughout all
time. the birth of our
Saviour, He who pro-
nOunceS peace on
earth and good will
/, therefore, a season
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-03-26

THE ATLANTA, AsHEvILLE AND EA'.Tl-
MORE RAILROAD CoMPANY-MEEG ING
OF CITIzENE WITH CoRPoRATvRs.
The recent legislature passed an act
chartering a railroad to be known as tie
Atlanta, Asheyille and Baltimore Rail
Road Company, with all usual powers
for the purpose of constructing an air
line road from Atlanta to Asheville,
thence Northeast to close nd-direct
connection with Baltimore. It most
important line, and when completed will
be one of the most useful and profita BILE
in the South. 1t will traverse nearly the
entire section west of The Blue Ridge in
North Carolina.
In accordance with authority conferred
by the c larter q meeting of the corpora
tors was called to meet in this city en-
Yesterday, and in consequence Il meeting
was held in the rooms Of MessTS. Atkin-
son and Cooke, q number of our promin-
ent and progressive citizens being present.
At the hocr OF mee ting it being dis
cover:d there were not enough corpora
t, rs present to proceed with business,
several being unavoidably absent or de-
tanned, it was decided to hold meet
ing of the citizens present, in order to
have an expression of the sympathy and
interest of our people in so imDortant an
enterprise.
On motion of Capt. Atkinson, Capt
NJ. J. Fagg was called to the chair, and
Robt. NJ. Furman made secretary.
Capt. Atkinson explained fully the
object of the meeting, and tie enCo irsg-
ing prospects for securing the construc-
r Al 4
introduced
Col. ]. Powell, of New York, who
addressed few remarks to the meeting,
giving his views of the value and inn
pertance of such q road, and stating that
if he could secure authority from the
stockholders he believed he was in po
sition TO secure contract within ninety
days to construct and equip the road
from the Virginia line to the Georgia
line.
Mr.. Rawls introduced resolution,
expressing tine sense of the meeting as
favorable to the proposition of Col.
Powell under proper restriction and
protection, and commencing the same
| to the favora bic consideration of the
stockholders when organized, which
resolution waI adopted.
After fu interchange of views by
those prescn and showing great inter
estin the spr:se and willingness to
do all in { over of our people TO aid
it, the M. = adjourned.
The ators present agreed to
meet at erhour in the day, upon
the arr, other corporators whowere
expectei
I'VE tr-sg every encouragement may
be Civ his ENTERPRISE Col. Powell
spoke cnconragingly of the pros
! pects e road, and we sincerely wish
all m suit as is hoDed by all our
peoTh
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-03-26
LNO'
Asheville, n. c.. March 25, 1886.

BATTERY PARK Hotel AGAIN TO
BE CHARACTERISTIC MORE Room
NEEDED.
The pressure upon this aimira-
BILE hotel, and the engagements al
ready made for the coming Summer
havcs satisfied Col: Coxe:that, not-
withstsndirg Tie fact The capacity
Of the hotel would soon be doubled,
that still mueh more room would be
required to satisfy the demand upon
its accommodation; and, he has de-
terulined to proceed at once to add
largely to the northern side of the
hotel, thas .u6re than thribbling its
present capacity, which addition is
to be made at onee SO as to be r5ady
before the Summer season is over,
if possible. This viii be, when COM
pleted, one of the 'ew very large, if
net the largest, hostelry in the
South and the high character ofits
manacement will always secure fer
it a patronage equal to its utmost
capacity.